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<TITLE>The Internet Learning Agent</title>

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The Internet Learning Agent (ILA)
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<p>The number and diversity of information resources on the net is 
growing rapidly. To enable people to keep up with this growth and find
information on the net, we propose the <b>Internet Learning Agent</b>, which
forms models of information resources by interacting with them.

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<p>Papers:
<ul>
<li><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><a href="ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/map/papers/Category-Translation.ps">
Category Translation: Learning to understand information on the Internet</a>
has been published in IJCAI95 and the AAAI95 Spring Symposium on information 
gathering.
<li><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><a href="ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/map/papers/ILA-JIIS.ps">
Learning to Understand Information on the Internet: 
An Example-Based Approach</a> elaborates on ILA and includes the
<!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/bobd/">ShopBot</a>.
The paper will appear in the
<!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><a href="http://www.isse.gmu.edu/JIIS/index.html">
<i>Journal of Intelligent Information Systems</i></a>.
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<p>This is work by 
<!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/map/">Mike Perkowitz</a> and
<!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/etzioni/">Oren Etzioni</a>.


